For those of you not familiar with the Snowball service in AWS, Snowball is essentially an external appliance that you can use to ship massive amounts of data from your on-premise site to AWS. This is achieved by first obtaining the Snowball device from AWS, transferring all your data to it, and then shipping it back out to AWS through a regional carrier. This service proves to be extremely useful when you have terabytes of data that has to be moved to AWS in a secure and fast manner, especially when your local network is limited by data bandwidth and geography.
Snowball Edge is an extension of this service that provides you with the same appliance features but with a few extra add-ons in terms of support for running Lambda functions locally, an interface that supports NFS, cluster support, and so on. You can actually cluster these appliances and integrate...
